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Albert Smith

Smith, Albert, Private, 2549, 1st/6th Battalion, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
Disembarked for service 18th August 1915
Born Bacup, Lancashire
Enlisted Buxton, Derbyshire
Killed in action 5th October 1915 aged 17
Commemorated on the Loos Memorial

1911 Census
A school boy
Son of James Thorpe Smith, a cotton doubler, and Rebecca Smith, of 6, Dale Terrace, Cressbrook, Derbyshire

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(Photograph and article from the Derbyshire Courier, 16th October 1915)

Cressbrook
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